Video and Exhibition

"Indonesian in Kesennuma"

Contemporary artist Atsushi Kadowaki will make portrait videos of Indonesians in Kesennuma and exhibit installation works. Kadowaki is doing art projects traveling between Indonesia and Tohoku from 2016. What on earth are Sanriku, Japan, or Indonesia through their eyes? This project will be the first step to expand the exchange to people living in Sanriku.
The exhibition will be held at two places. Kesennuma Library and Yodhoyono children's hall were newly constructed with children's books and reading story corners made with Indonesian aid. In addition, Welcoming Village (tentative name) will open near the Kesennuma Fish Market in February 2019. There are 200 Indonesian in Kesennuma for learning technical training. The local companies of Kesennuma think that t it is necessary to understand culture in order to create a friendly friendship relationship. So they will build mosque, Indonesian restaurant and public bath etc for mutual understanding culture.

＜date＞　Mar 2-24, 2019
＜place＞　Kesennuma Library/Yodhoyono Children's Library
Welcoming Village（open in Feb 2019）

＜Artist：Atsushi Kadowaki＞
Born in 1969 in Sendai, Japan. Graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Language (majoring for Arabic). After working for a steel company he started his career as a painter. But after he joined the art project held in 2003 in Sendai, he began to join or make art projects in various towns like "Togabi Art Project"(Nagano, 2004-06), "GOTEN GOTEN Spa Art Festival"(Miyagi, 2006-08), "Kira Kira Yume Hiroba"(Chiba, 2006-), "ZAWAORLD"(Hokkaido, 2009-11), "Kabukicho 2020"(Tokyo, 2010-), "Ritto Community Art Factory"(Shiga, 2010-11). After the Great East Japan Earthquake, "Oshiruko Cafe"(support for rebuild community at recovery housing in Sendai, 2012-), "Ishinomaki Hibi Children's Newspaper"(newspaper by and for children, 2012-), "Art Inclusion"(art factory for people with disabilities, 2013-), "STARTohoku"(art label with various expression after the earthquake, 2013-), "Aceh-Japan Community Art Project"(exchanges by art between Indonesia and Tohoku, 2017-)

＜Cameraman：Yuichi Watanabe＞
Born in Hokkaido in 1962. Video artist, producer. After documentary production and video journalist activity, he is pursuing the possibility of interactive video and dialogue from "2002 Japan and Afghan High School Video Telephone Dialogue" after the Afghan War. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, he worked to support information exchange and dissemination of afflicted areas. For the first time in Japan for nationwide television broadcasting one year public access broadcast "East Japan great earthquake · what we can do for our citizens" realized (2011, BS 11). Others "NHK Special / Do you know the current situation in Fukushima" (NHK synthesis 2013) etc. He went to Aceh immediately after the 2004 Sumatra Earthquake. He continues to record video about the tsunami that ended the civil war with the central government or "send information" which makes the negative experience positive. In recent years, he began establishing the method and theory how to share the earthquake disaster structure and the earthquake disaster sharing in the remote place by utilizing the VR image. Director and Secretary General of The Laboratory for Grobal Dialogue.

Cycling and Exhibition

"200km Cycling, Sanriku and Aceh"

Contemporary artist Atsushi Kadowaki at the age of 50 next January will ride his bicycle 270 km from Sendai via Kesennuma to Otsuchi. In Kesennuma, he will visit Indonesian people of the project01 "Indonesian in Kesennuma". He finish his cycling at Otsuchi Cultural Exchange Center "Oshacchi". The bicycle will be exhibited at the Center with the route map etc.
People and landscapes encountered by cycling will be edited to a film later and screened in various places.

＜Why does he do such a thing? >
When the Great East Japan Earthquake happened, I was in the art hall of Shiga prefecture. I was able to be back to my hometown, Sendai, with the help of various people. The next day after the earthquake, I was able to reach Omiya by train. But the train stopped there. So I bought the second cheapest bicycle at the cycling shop. The mother of the shop took me to Nasushiobara by car. From there I bicycled 200 km to Sendai. Nearly seven years had passed and I felt that I forgot what was that day in 2017. So I brought my bicycle to Aceh, the disaster area of the 2004 Sumatra Earthquake. And I rode my bicycle the same 200 kilometers at that day. I saw that there were completely different form of reconstruction from Tohoku.
　This time, I ride my bike from Sendai via Kesennuma to Otsuchi for 270 km along the Sanriku coast. I will make an installation work with my bicycle at Otsuchi Cultural Exchange Center.
We will also edit a film and show people and landscape that we met on the way of cycling. In addition to it, I am also planning to show cycling between Sendai and Iwaki which I rode in March 2018 or cycling between Awajishima and Kobe in January 2019.

＜rout＞
・１st day:　March 12th　Sendai-Onagawa（89km）
My home-Shiogama-Matsushima-Higashi Matsushima-Ishinomaki-Onagawa
・２nd day: Mar 13th　Onagawa-Kesennuma（89km）
Onagawa-Ogatsu-Togura-Shizugawa-Utatsu-Kesennuma
・３rd day:　March 14　Kesennuma-Otsuchi（94km）
Kesennuma-Ofunato-Kamaishi-Otsuchi

＜exhibition＞ Mar 15-17, Otsuchi Cultural Exchange Center "Oshacchi"

＜Artist：Atsushi Kadowaki＞
Born in 1969 in Sendai, Japan. Graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Language (majoring for Arabic). After working for a steel company he started his career as a painter. But after he joined the art project held in 2003 in Sendai, he began to join or make art projects in various towns like "Togabi Art Project"(Nagano, 2004-06), "GOTEN GOTEN Spa Art Festival"(Miyagi, 2006-08), "Kira Kira Yume Hiroba"(Chiba, 2006-), "ZAWAORLD"(Hokkaido, 2009-11), "Kabukicho 2020"(Tokyo, 2010-), "Ritto Community Art Factory"(Shiga, 2010-11). After the Great East Japan Earthquake, "Oshiruko Cafe"(support for rebuild community at recovery housing in Sendai, 2012-), "Ishinomaki Hibi Children's Newspaper"(newspaper by and for children, 2012-), "Art Inclusion"(art factory for people with disabilities, 2013-), "STARTohoku"(art label with various expression after the earthquake, 2013-), "Aceh-Japan Community Art Project"(exchanges by art between Indonesia and Tohoku, 2017-)

＜Cameraman：Yuichi Watanabe＞
Born in Hokkaido in 1962. Video artist, producer. After documentary production and video journalist activity, he is pursuing the possibility of interactive video and dialogue from "2002 Japan and Afghan High School Video Telephone Dialogue" after the Afghan War. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, he worked to support information exchange and dissemination of afflicted areas. For the first time in Japan for nationwide television broadcasting one year public access broadcast "East Japan great earthquake · what we can do for our citizens" realized (2011, BS 11). Others "NHK Special / Do you know the current situation in Fukushima" (NHK synthesis 2013) etc. He went to Aceh immediately after the 2004 Sumatra Earthquake. He continues to record video about the tsunami that ended the civil war with the central government or "send information" which makes the negative experience positive. In recent years, he began establishing the method and theory how to share the earthquake disaster structure and the earthquake disaster sharing in the remote place by utilizing the VR image. Director and Secretary General of The Laboratory for Grobal Dialogue.

Art Tour

"Knowing someon's thinking makes your world wider: Anywhere Pintu Walking in Sanriku"

Sumatra Earthquake Affected Area people from Aceh, Indonesia tour through the disaster areas of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the venues of Sanriku International Art Festival. Those who greatly differ in their cultural backgrounds meet with each other in areas where they experienced the same earthquake disaster.They rediscover their own societies through each other's eyes. It spreads their world. "Pintu" means "entrance" in Indonesian language. The art tour that started in Aceh in 2017 grows to an exchange between Aceh and Sanriku, aiming for long-lasting exchange for the future.

＜Destination> Sanriku International Art Festival area centered on Kesennuma and Otsuchi

＜date＞　March 13-19, 2019

＜Participant＞ Acehnses young people and Mr. Rahmadhani, the Deputy director of Aceh Culture and Tourism Agency

※You can interact with the Aceh people at the film festival and Oshiruko Cafe on March 16, or the exchange meeting on March 17.

＜Tour project director: Makiko Nakagawa＞
   Completed the Bunkyo University Graduate School of International Cooperation. From April 2013 to March 2016 she worked as a teacher at Thailand's overseas educational institution (Japanese school). She produced social studies supplementary reading "Our Shiracha". From June 2016 she worked for a local travel agency in the Philippines. She produces the study tours that are not visited by so-called "sightseeing". She also produces international exchanges and learning opportunities for local people and Japanese people. Director of The Laboratory for Grobal Dialogue.

Exchange Party over Food and Video

"Oshiruko Cafe／Community Art Film Festival in Otsuchi"

Watching the videos introducing Otsuchi Town and Aceh while cooking and eating Aceh's specialty dish "Mie Aceh (Aceh yakisoba)", Japanese traditional sweets "Oshiruko" or Otsuchi specialties etc. Share the time with Acehnese people.

＜place＞　Otsuchi Cultural Exchange Center "Oshacchi"

＜date＞　March 16, 2019

＜Oshiruko Cafe: Cooking supporter wanted＞
We are looking for someone who is interested in Indonesian cuisine, such as wanting Indonesian people to eat traditional cuisine of Otsuchi, we would like to cook together on the day.

＜Oshiruko Cafe：Menu＞
・Aceh's specialty dish "Mie Aceh" (Aceh yakisoba)
・Japanese traditional sweet "Oshiruko"
・Otsuchi's specialty dish！

＜Community Art Film Festival：Contents＞
・Otsuchi Town Introduction Video (Production: Otsuchi Town)
・Aceh Introduciton Video（Production：Aceh Community Art Consortium）
・"Otsuchi Town Drone Shooting Walk" (Production: Ogawa Ryokan)
・"Why I rode a 200 km bike in Indonesia" (Production: Aceh-Japan Community Art Film)
・"How to make Oshiruko Cafe" (Production: MMIX Lab), etc.

Exchange Talk Meeting

"Sanriku and Aceh, Dialogue to the Future"

All the projects will be one in this meeting.
Disaster areas of the Sumatra Earthquake in Aceh in 2004, Indonesia and the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. We share the same experience of earthquake disaster and have dialogue for the future beyond region and time.
The venue is the Otsuchi Town Cultural Exchange Center (Familiar name: Oshacchi) just opened in Otsuchi Town, Iwate prefecture in 2018. The day before the exchange talk meeting, we will hold an exchange party (see Project 4) to make Oshiruko and Mie Aceh (Aceh's specialty fried noodles) while watching the videos introducing Otsuchi Town and Aceh.

＜place＞　Otsuchi Cultural Exchange Center "Oshacchi"

＜Date and time＞ Sunday, March 17, 2019 (Sun) 10: 00-15: 00

＜Panelist＞
・Mr. Rahmadhani (Deputy Director, Aceh Culture and Tourism Agency)
He is vigorously engaged in efforts such as disaster-stricken tourism utilizing the earthquake disaster earthquake in Aceh.
・Mr. Hiroyasu Yamauchi (Deputy Director, Rias Ark Museum / Curator)
Immediately after the disaster, he collected what were destoryed by tsunami and set up a permanent exhibition in the museum that tells the Great East Japan Earthquake.
・Youth in Aceh etc

Exchange Project by Painting and Exhibition

"Kesennuma and Aceh after 15 years"

Children of Kesennuma and Aceh jointly paint large paintings on the theme of 15 years later. The paintings will be exhibited at the earthquake disaster, Koyo High School in Kesennuma city which opens in March 2019.

＜place＞　Earthquake disaster ruins: Kesennuma Koyo High School

＜date＞　Exhibited from the opening of the end of March 2019

＜Painting> Children of Aceh and Kesennuma